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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Orientalism Now, Part IV: The Latest Phase.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote La Tentation de Saint Antoine?
(a) Julius Mohl.
(b) Gustave Flaubert.
(c) Gaston Bachelard.
(d) Raymond Schwab.

2. Who is cited in Chapter 3 with the following quote: "The political interest that ties England to India holds British work to a sustained contact with concrete realities, and maintains the cohesion between representations of the past and the spectacle of the present" (264)?
(a) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(b) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(c) Eduard Sachau.
(d) Sylvain Levi.

3. Who wrote A Passage to India?
(a) Henri Baudet.
(b) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(c) V. W. Richards.
(d) E. M. Forster.

4. What term refers to the study of language in written historical sources?
(a) Linguology.
(b) Epidemiology.
(c) Anthropology.
(d) Philology.

5. Who wrote the Iliad?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Homer.
(c) Plato.
(d) Achilles.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Reinhart Dozy's Histoire des Mussulmans d'Espagne jusqu'a .la Conquete de l'Andalousie par les Almoravides published?

2. What poem by Goethe is quoted and described by the author as identifying the Orient as "a place of original opportunity" in Chapter 2?

3. When did the Arab oil boycott take place historically?

4. What French philosopher is cited in Chapter 1 as having written an analysis on "the poetics of space" (54)?

5. The author notes in Chapter 1 that from 1815 to 1914 European direct colonial dominion expanded from about 35% of the earth's surface to what percent?

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